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| | | ... World, FTSE All World and IFC Emerging Markets indices to sign the UN Global Compact, a set of principles regarding human rights, the environment and anti-corruption strategies. The principles provide a framework of widely accepted standards for firms ... |
| | | | ... behaviour. This year alone we have been collectively involved in investor efforts to improve labour conditions and human rights in some problem areas, as well as promote carbon emissions disclosure amongst companies internationally," Orr said. The fund ... |
| | | | ... reporting. According to EIRiS, the greatest improvements have been seen in environmental policy development as well as human rights and supply chain management. "Health and safety management systems have improved - 80 per cent of companies now have clear ... |
| | | | ... to explain the same contradiction of why the US needed a strong and positive relationship with China despite any human rights concerns: "Free trade is essential to human rights. It makes everyone play by the same global rules, strengthen the hand of ... |
| | | | ... very good," he said. But for the ethical or sustainable investor, emerging markets remain a hard gate to open as human rights issues and un-democratic political governance models still present stumbling blocks. EMs such as China and India have made headways ... |
| | | | ... their firm generally avoided investing in countries including Russia and China. However, it was hard to use possible human rights abuses, a core tenet of SRI investing, as a reason not to look at BRIC markets. "The world's largest economy, the United ... |
| | | | ... nations, countries developing nuclear weapons or weapons of mass destruction, countries that systematically abuse human rights and will not invest in nuclear power. It will also employ Hunter Hall's existing screens to avoid companies that derive revenue ... |
| | | | ... guidelines include the United Nations Global Compact principles as a key standard against which to monitor companies on human rights practices. The fund's investments in Total S.A. account for around 0.1 per cent of the total Fund. Michelle Baltazar |
| | | | ... investments in weapons producers Textron and Raytheon, which produce cluster bombs. Cluster bombs are abhorred by human rights groups which claim they kill more civilians than soldiers. The fund also has small investments in some of the worlds largest ... |
| | | | ... paid to full time, non-managerial employees. Jo Tilly, acting director of the sex and discrimination unit at the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, said the gender wage gap in the finance and insurance sector (at 23 percentage points) was ... |
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